Els reaccionaris valencians. La tradició amagada

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2010, 216 pp.

Until not long ago, the Valencian Country was considered a land with a liberal, left-wing and republican tradition. Nowadays, this impression has faded away, after a long period of right-wing political and ideological hegemony. It certainly is a hegemony that doesn’t arouse the autochthonous reactionary thinking sources, which seems not to exist. However, present can’t be understood if we forget the grounds left by reactionary thinking in the Valencian society, even if it is not claimed by current right-wing representatives. Extremist conservative, reactionary and fascist ideas are uncomfortable in a time where democracy and modernity has finally been assumed. Nevertheless, don’t deceive ourselves, in the background of current power and in a second line of formation and definition of attitudes and ideas, the not acknown inheritance of the reactionary thinking, a hidden tradition and an extremely significant prehistory survive. This book analyzes the career, the work and the influence of seven prominent representatives of the Valencian reactionary thinking —Rafael Rodríguez de Cepeda, Vicent Gay, Eduard Martínez-Sabater, Joan Beneyto, Diego Sevilla Andrés, Rafael Calvo Serer and Josep Corts Grau— and offers the key to understand a past which still casts a long shadow over our present.